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Zeiss’ first digital camera packs a full-frame sensor and a glorious minimalist look

Impressively-specced ZX1 will be on sale next year

You’ll find Zeiss’ lenses attached to all sorts of other manufacturers’ cameras, but the German company has never released its own digital camera – until now. The beautifully minimalist Zeiss ZX1 (out early 2019, price TBC) looks mightily impressive on paper, pairing a Zeiss-developed 37.4MP full-frame sensor with a fixed focal length 35mm f/2 Distagon lens. It’ll come with 4K video recording at 30fps, OLED viewfinder, 4.3in 720p rear touchscreen and 512GB of internal storage – apparently space enough for almost 7,000 RAW photo files or 50,000 JPEGs. Perhaps most interesting is its in-camera Adobe Lightroom CC, giving perfectionist users the chance to adjust and tweak images straight after snapping them. Given its specs and Zeiss’ history and heritage, the ZX1 is a camera that’ll get photographers very excited indeed – but be warned that it’s likely to be priced accordingly.

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Tech journalism's answer to The Littlest Hobo, I've written for a host of titles and lived in three different countries in my 15 years-plus as a freelancer. But I've always come back home to Stuff eventually, where I specialise in writing about cameras, streaming services and being tragically addicted to Destiny.

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